Gary Alexander Iron, 40, is a repeat offender who punched the store\u0027s owner and fled in stolen clothes.
Iron had previously been convicted of a 2014 robbery of another downtown business, Bateman’s Jewelry, and declared a dangerous offender with an indeterminate sentence based on his criminal history. However, he was later acquitted upon appeal.Iron’s two-day trial for the Caswells robbery took place in May and heard from four Crown witnesses, including the store’s owner, an employee, a customer who was there at the time and a Saskatoon police officer who investigated.
“In the 1994 movie, The Shawshank Redemption, the narrator asks, ‘I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a man’s shoes?’ It appears the answer is more often than the script writers envisioned, as this case, which focuses on the issue of identity, demonstrates,” Hildebrandt wrote in her decision.
The store’s owner, Gordon Burgess, and an employee testified that the robber had been directed to a dressing room and came out wearing the vest and shirt. Burgess said the man had also tried to take jeans out of his hands, but he told the man, “These aren’t yours — they’re for somebody else.”There was an error, please provide a valid email address.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
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